Quotes About Dedication

Sen bu karanl?k ömrümün içine bir sevinç ????? gibi, kurumaya yüz tutan ekinlere can veren bir nisan ya?muru gibi birdenbire geldin. Ben bu kadar bol hayat ve saadet ya?muru alt?nda kendimi unutmu? gibiyim. ?imdi ömrümün tek bir gayesi var: Bir gün evvel sana kavu?mak, seni kollar?m?n aras?na almak, güzel, temiz yüzüne saatlerce, senelerce hiç doymadan bakmak.

As long as you feed me, sir," Freddy said, "I'll follow you anywhere.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

One fundamental requirement for anybody who wishes to grow on the spiritual path is to have an un-deviated flow of energy towards one and only one goal in life: to attain to the highest and not settle for anything less than that.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Do Your Best Work

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials

Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second

If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.

Excluding vacations, that's 144 gym classes a year, which comes to a lifetime total of 1,584; multiply that by forty minutes a class and it comes to 1,056 hours of nonstop harassment, or forty-four days of round-the-clock terror. POWs have died for less.

If you want to be a garbage man, be a garbage man, but be the best garbage man you can be. (p. 8)

Ne vois-tu pas que, si les gens de métier s'accommodent jusqu'à un certain point aux goûts des particuliers, ils n'en restent pourtant pas moins attachés à la raison de leur art et ne supportent pas de s'en écarter?

Life grows relative to one's investment in it.

Those who lack faith and commitment live without purpose. They do not work for the sake of the goal but only for their own pleasure, to gain honor or money.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.

every man is worth   just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. 

The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.